I am a colonial American historian with research interests in borderlands history, women’s and gender history, and the history of the body. . . . I am beginning to research a third book about the body in early America.”

She represents the best and, mostly, worst of the modern historian and revisionist psychology so typical of the garbage being churned out of academia today. In her ‘Cloistered Bodies’ piece about nuns she

argues that convents served as a convenient metaphor . . . in the mid-eighteenth century English and Anglo-American imagination: They were French, Catholic, feminized, and most disturbingly, closed to Protestant men. In describing French Canada and its convents, they used language that suggests their fascination with opening and penetrating this new addition to the empire, despite the fact that the Quebec Ursulines were in fact very open to visitors, even to Protestant men.”

Shepard Fairey,the designer of this poster,is an amazingly talented artist. He's often political, a leftist with whom I often disagree.But I love his work.

I love Lando & I love Shaft.

This poster of Terry Porter, Buck Williams & Jerome Kersey used to hang on my wall. I need to find another one. I was a huge fan of the Portland Trailblazers during the Clyde Drexler and Arvydas Sabonis eras.

I took one of these once and put it up in my apartment. It's a great poster. I need to get another one. I wonder if any are on eBay. (Yes, yes, I know stealing is wrong. It was a big color copy of the original, from a laser printer, probably from Kinko's, hanging outside a convenience store.)